Dr. Steve Blake
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 Over geologic time, iodine has washed out of soils and into the ocean. Seaweed and fish acquire iodine from the ocean; these are the richest dietary sources of iodine. The soils of mountainous areas and flooded plains are often deficient in iodine.
THYROID HORMONES AND ENERGY PRODUCTION
Thyroid hormones regulate the burning of energy in the body by controlling the rate that oxygen burns in the cells. This regulates the metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Thyroid hormones increase the burning of fats and regulate the burning of carbohydrates. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There's the intention of the people involved with producing that apple, the health of the soils, the use of chemicals (or not) on the apple, the impact on the environment, and much more.
An organic, locally-farmed apple from a small family farm tells a very different story: Respect for nature, positive intention, healthful soils, humility in nature, connection with plants and animals, biodiversity, minimal use of fossil fuels, and so on. This is the kind of apple I'd like to eat… how about you? |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The trees can tolerate poor soils and shady conditions and have low water requirements.
PIPSISSEWA
Botanical Name
Chimaphila menziesii, C. umbellata Family
Pyrolaceae (Wintergreen Family)
Pine improves circulation and oxygen transport in the body and can encourage blood clots to dissolve. It is used in the treatment of acne, blood clots, bronchitis, coughs, croup, emphysema, fever, laryngitis, rheumatoid arthritis, scurvy, sinusitis, and tonsillitis.
Topically, pine can be used as a compress to treat bronchitis, nephritis, pneumonia, rheumatism, sciatica, and wounds. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 According to Fitzgerald, "Numerous studies have shown that during the 20th century we lost about 85 percent of the nutrients in North America's crop soils. The bulk of the 90 nutrients essential to human health have been depleted from the soil by fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, acid rain and other factors. Then during food processing up to two-thirds of vitamin and mineral levels in most foods are eliminated. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Soils in some areas are selenium-deficient and people who eat foods grown primarily on selenium-poor soils are at risk for deficiency. People with AIDS (page 239) have been reported to be depleted in selenium.12 Similarly, limited research has reported an association between heart disease (page 98) and depleted levels of selenium.13 People who are deficient in selenium have an increased risk of developing certain types of rheumatoid arthritis (page 387).14
How much is usually taken? |
Andreas Moritz
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 Before the depletion of soils, plant foods and the mineral-rich water they absorbed were our best source of minerals. When a plant grows in a healthy soil environment, it absorbs existing colloidal minerals and changes them into an ionic, water-soluble form. The ionic minerals come in the minute size known as angstrom, whereas the colloidal minerals, also known as inorganic, metallic minerals, are about 10,000 times larger (micron-size). Ionic, water-soluble, plant minerals are absorbed readily by our body cells. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Seaweed and fish acquire iodine from the ocean; these are the richest dietary sources of iodine. The soils of mountainous areas and flooded plains are often deficient in iodine.
THYROID HORMONES AND ENERGY PRODUCTION
Thyroid hormones regulate the burning of energy in the body by controlling the rate that oxygen burns in the cells. This regulates the metabolism of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Thyroid hormones increase the burning of fats and regulate the burning of carbohydrates. Overall, thyroid hormones increase the production of energy in the body. |
| Zinc deficiency in agricultural samples is very common with only a small percentage of agricultural soils providing adequate zinc.
:ion of Zinc
Zinc absorption in the intestines varies from 15 to 40 percent. Zinc can be absorbed by a special protein in the intestinal cells called metallothionein. As you may recall, this is the same protein that can bind copper. Zinc is held by metallothionein until needed in the blood. If the zinc is not needed, it may be eliminated in the stool when the intestinal cells slough off. Metallothionein also binds zinc in the liver until the zinc is needed. |
| SOURCES OF SELENIUM
Selenium is found in some soils in the United States and Canada. Since vegetables and grains are transported from different areas, people generally receive enough selenium in their diet. Brazil nuts are especially high in selenium, although they do vary in their content. Food sources of selenium can be seen in Graph 13-1. Infant formulas based upon cow's milk may be deficient in selenium.
Selenium supplements are available in several forms. Sodium selenate is very well absorbed, but much of it is lost in urine before it can be used. |
Bill Sardi
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 The garlic powders were obtained from bulbs grown on soils with different levels of sulfur fertilization. A cancer-causing chemical (aflatoxin) was injected into the animals. A strong reduction of pre-cancerous growths was observed in rodents fed garlic powder that contained the highest level of alliin. This study highlights the possibility of controlling the cultivation conditions to improve the cancer-fighting properties of garlic. [Carcinogenesis 25:1953-59, 2004]
Garlic pills
Most garlic pills have a very different composition than what is claimed by their manufacturer. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They will irradiate the Iraqi soils for generations to come, destroying the genetic code of an entire race. This is a case of mass genocide against civilians being carried out right now by the U.S. government, with the full awareness of the President, the Congress and the mainstream media. The long sought-after Weapons of Mass Destruction have finally been found: They're being used by the U.S. military!
Heard enough? We've barely scratched the surface. As far as the crimes of the U.S. federal government go, tapping into Amazon.com's records is little more than a drop in the bucket. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Range and Appearance
Native to Eurasia, agrimony grows in all types of soils but prefers sunny slopes, sandy terrain, and poor pastureland. This perennial plant can reach a height of 12 to 28 inches. Its basal leaves form a rosette and, along with the stem leaves, are irregularly pinnate and widely spaced. The flowers, which appear from June through September, are golden yellow and grow in a long inflorescence.
Edible Uses
Alfalfa's young leaves and flowers may be eaten as salad greens or potherbs. Seed sprouts can be added to salads. |
Ray D. Strand
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Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies, which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance? The alarming fact is that foods—fruits and vegetables and grains—now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals, are starving us no matter how much we eat.3
Beach made this statement in 1936. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Goji grows well in poor, well-drained soils in full sun.
Although the berries are bright red when on the bush, they lose some color when dried. When purchasing goji berries, avoid those that remain bright red; they probably have been treated with sulfite preservatives. mote tissue healing, dry dampness, help thin mucus secretions, and reduce inflammation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The longer our soils are farmed with large-scale commercial farming techniques, the worse the situation is going to get and the lower the mineral content will become. This is why floods, tsunamis and even volcanoes are very good for humans in the long-term, because they recycle the soil and deposit more minerals and new nutrients onto lands that can be used for farming.
Following the late 2004 tsunami in Thailand, the soils there produced outstanding crop yields because ocean water had been deposited onto the land. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| It prefers full sun to partial shade and moderate amounts of water and thrives in a wide variety of soils.
If wildcrafting, do not collect red clover in autumn, when they may have developed potentially toxic molds.
REDROOT
Botanical Name
Ceanotbus americanus
Family
Rhamnaceae (Buckthorn Family) Etymology
The genus name, Ceanotbus, derives from the Greek keanthos, "spiny plant." The species name, americanus, refers to the plant being native to North America. The common name redroot refers to the red dye that the root yields. |
| Walnut trees can be found growing in moist, fertile soils with lots of sun. They tend to repel other plants and trees from growing too close to them.
WHITE OAK
Botanical Name
Quercus alba
Family
Fagaceae (Beech Family) Etymology
The genus name, Quercus, is thought to derive from the Celtic quer, "fine," and cuez, "tree." The species name, alba, is Latin for "white. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Organic foods taste better, thanks to the better-balanced soils in which they're grown.
Organic farming is better for the environment because it protects water resources and the soil. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Habitat: Aga is found in the northern hemisphere in sandy, acid soils as far as the northern tundra.
Production: Aga is the above-ground part of Amanita muscaria.
Other Names: Fly Agaric
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Ibotenic acid Muscimol Muscarine (traces)
Betalains (skin pigment)
EFFECTS
Hallucinogenic, toxic.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
In homeopathy for the treatment of neuralgias, fever, anxiety, alcohol poisoning and joint pains.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
The drug is highly toxic. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Thus, because high organic matter content can as much as double erosion resistance, soils generally become more erodible the longer they are plowed.
Conventional agriculture typically increases soil erosion to well above natural rates, resulting in a fundamental problem. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that it takes five hundred years to produce an inch of topsoil. Darwin thought English worms did a little better, making an inch of topsoil in a century or two. |
| Rich, easily worked soils made grains the major cash crop along Italy's river valleys. Focused like his predecessors on maximizing production, Columella chastised large landowners who left fields fallow for extended periods.
Columella described two simple tests of soil quality. The easy way was to take a small piece of earth, sprinkle it with a little water, and roll it around. Good soil would stick to yout fingers when handled and did not crumble when thrown to the ground. A more labor-intensive test involved analyzing the dirt excavated from a hole. |
| Droughts and intense storms accelerated erosion periodically on land where agricultural practices left soils bare and vulnerable.
As in other Paleolithic hunting cultures in southern Europe, an almost exclusive reliance on hunting large animals in central Italy gave way to more mixed hunting, fishing, and gathering as forests returned after the glaciers retreated. Thousands of years later, sometime between 5000 and 4000 bc, immigrants from the east introduced agriculture to the Italian Peninsula. |
| Cato focused on grape, olive, and fruit growing and distinguished nine types of arable soils, subdivided into twenty-one minor classes based mainly on what grew best in them. He called farmers the ideal citizens and considered the agricultural might of its North African rival, Carthage, a direct threat to Roman interests. Carthage was an agricultural powerhouse capable of becoming a military rival. In perhaps the earliest known political stunt, Cato brought plump figs grown in Carthage onto the Senate floor to emphasize his view that "Carthage must be destroyed. |
| Combinations of soil horizons, their thickness, and composition vary widely for soils developed under different conditions and over different lengths of time. There are some twenty thousand specific soil types recognized in the United States. Despite such variety, most soil profiles are about one to three feet thick.
Soil truly is the skin of the earth—the frontier between geology and biology. Within its few feet, soil accounts for a bit more than a ten millionth of our planet's 6,380 km radius. |
| Despite the occasional mass extinction, life and soils symbiotically grew and diversified through climate changes and shifting arrangements of continents.
As soil completes the cycle of life by decomposing and recycling organic matter and regenerating the capacity to support plants, it serves as a filter that cleanses and converts dead stuff into nutrients that feed new life. Soil is the interface between the rock that makes up our planet and the plants and animals that live off sunlight and nutrients leached out of rocks. |
Dr. Julian Whitaker
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| The soils of certain areas of the world are naturally deficient in certain minerals, and foods grown in those soils are low in those particular nutrients. For example, the cancer rate in various areas of China varies by a factor of three. These differences have been traced to the small amount of selenium, a mineral that reduces the risk of cancer, in the soils of these areas. People living in low-selenium areas (and presumably eating food grown in these mineral-poor soils) are three times more likely to get cancer than their countrymen living in high-selenium areas. |
Devra Davis
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 The residents of El Paso and Juarez know this, because they are joined by more than a century's worth of leaden soils and plumes that have freely crossed back and forth over the U.S.-Mexican border and left many zones uninhabitable including some areas of Sunland, New Mexico. Commerce, of course, crosses borders as well. In 1999 ASARCO was bought for more than $ 1 billion and today is a completely owned subsidiary of Grupo Mexico. They have declared their intention to reopen this century-old facility. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Meadowsweet prefers moist locations with loamy soils and partial shade to full sun.
MILK THISTLE
Botanical Name
Silybum marianum (formerly Carduus marianus) Family
Asteraceae (Daisy Family) Etymology
The genus name, Silybum, was given by the first-century Greek physician Dioscorides as a name to several edible thistles. The species name, marianum, honors the Virgin Mary. The common name milk thistle refers to the white veins on the leaves, which look as if milk was spilled upon them—according to legend, the milk of the Virgin Mary. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 They can be internally synthesized in biochemical reactions or they can be scavenged externally from the environment - from water, soils, plants, or other species. Synthesis requires redirecting energy away from other bodily functions to the synthesizing activity. Scavenging is the driving force behind the evolution of longer necks, bigger jaws, stronger teeth, greater speed, more aggressive behavior, and other characteristics that may assist any species in the competition for scarce resources. |
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